Opening Exhibition Living Nature

Project by Minas Gerais artist Lucia Adverse, curated by the Parisian gallery Ricardo Fernandes, takes place in Tiradentes between 20 and 23 October

Historic Tiradentes is experiencing an intense cultural program at the end of October. On 20/10 (Thursday), the opening of the exhibition Live nature, by Lucia Adverse, in the Roots Space, in the historic city center. on the same date, the artist also launches the photographic book about the project, written by art critic Camilla Schenkel.

For four days, the public will be able to see an impressive exhibition, of monumental proportions. will be presented 16 photographs and three installations by the artist who is represented by Galeria Ricardo Fernandes, of Paris, that also who signs the curatorship and scenography.

“All the works presented are the result of a research that I started in 2012, within the Natureza Viva project” explains Lucia Adverse. The two installations occupy the external dependencies of the space.. “We will have a sound installation in the oven and an installation with 16 mixed media works on paper, in the chapel” says the artist. The 16 monumental photographs, occupy the main hall.

About Living Nature

In its endless process of reading and researching, Lucia Adverse started a vast biographical collection on female artists, that since the century. XVII have been living intensely, playful and strong. The artist then decided that one way or another, would pay tribute to these women artists, transforming the main characteristics of each, in plastic expressions found in nature and observed through his photographic vision.

Lucia went on to map each of these female biographies and identify them as plants., Trees, forests, as if he wanted to take human expressions from nature or without knowing, merge human lives into processes that in one way or another, are biochemically explainable.

“This mixture of observations and studies, came to define the relationship between forms and facts, defying the artist's feelings, who created a veritable forest of female portraits, in metaphors and symbols, entitling them to Live nature; however, they seem to me to be fragments of a self-portrait by the artist herself, but that in the ebb and flow of co-incidence, leads us to reflect the nature-image of each of the characters, in ourselves” explains gallery owner and curator Ricardo Fernandes.

“For a long time, the so-called fairer sex was expected to be delicacy, freshness and beauty, hence the commonplace comparison with flowers. Lucia offers, on the contrary, an entire tree for each of these women whose lives he finds remarkable. Instead of highlighting its fruits and leaves, value, in your images, twisted trunks, cracked shells, dry twigs, cracks and lichens, bringing them closer to the power of these characters” completes Camila Schenkel, art criticism.

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